“The Victor I loved is no more... now he likes to make saucy remarks and is turning into a liberal, which does not suit him.”
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Alfred de Vigny
Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny was a French poet and an early French Romanticist. He also produced novels, plays, and translations of Shakespeare.
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culture · French poet, playwright, and novelist (1797–1863) · writer · playwright · poet · novelist · diarist · translator · also Alfred de Vigny, Alfred Victor de Vigny, Alfred Victor, comte de Vigny, Alfred, Comte de Vigny, Vigny
Born 27 March 1797 · Died 17 September 1863 · Q309702
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
Sud Ouest: Champagne-Vigny : Le Maine Giraud, dans l’intimité retrouvée d’Alfred de Vigny
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2024· 1 entry
Fabula: Alfred de Vigny, Théâtre complet (éd. Sylvain Ledda & Lise Sabourin)
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2023· 2 entries
MutualArt.com: Alfred de Vigny
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AlloCiné: Biographie Alfred de Vigny
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2021· 1 entry
Le Monde.fr: Les Mémoires d'Alfred de Vigny
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2020· 2 entries
Le Monde.fr: ALFRED de VIGNY homme d'ordre
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Linternaute.com: Alfred de Vigny : biographie de l'écrivain, auteur de La mort du Loup
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2016· 1 entry
Sud Ouest: Les trésors d’Alfred de Vigny vendus aux enchères
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2012· 1 entry
Fabula: Alfred de Vigny et le romantisme
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1876· 1 entry
The composer Ruggero Leoncavallo wrote an opera CHATTERTON based upon Vigny's play and novel
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1863· 1 entry
Died 1863-09-17.
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1856· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1856).
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1845· 2 entries
After several unsuccessful attempts to be elected, Vigny became a member of the Académie française
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Career landmark: seat 32 of the Académie française (1845–1863).
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1838· 1 entry
Inherited the property of Maine-Giraud, near Angoulême, where it was said that he had withdrawn to his 'ivory tower' (an expression Sainte-Beuve coined with reference to Vigny)
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1833· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1833).
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1824· 1 entry
On the popular romantic theme of the redemption of Satan
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1822· 1 entry
And to captain the next year, the military profession in time of peace bored him
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1814· 1 entry
Vigny enrolled in one of the privileged aristocratic companies of the Maison du Roi (king's guard) as a second lieutenant
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1797· 1 entry
Born 1797-03-27.
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